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New study reveals data protection and compliance risks from new era of mobile workforce

Consumer messaging apps overtake email for work communication via mobile, as new MEF study reveals privacy and security risks faced by employers and employees. Workplaces are changing dramatically with desks, PCs and fixed-line phones being replaced by mobile working.

MEFMarch 10, 2020

Personal Data

Data Privacy Day in 2020 – more relevant than ever?

Last week saw the celebration of Data Privacy Day or Data Protection Day as it was also been known when it was first set-up in 2006 by the EU. Now ‘celebrated’ globally, we asked MEF Members for their views and observations on the significance of the day in 2020, the…

MEFFebruary 4, 2020

Digital Identity Enterprise Communications Interview MEFTV

Interview: John Wilkinson – CEO, TMT Analysis

MEFTV speaks to John Wilkinson, CEO of technology, media and telecoms data specialists TMT Analysis about their view of the mobile ecosystem, digital identity, mobile fraud, RCS and how they see the messaging space developing in 2020 and beyond. “Particularly for our business we’re interested in the future of identity;…

MEFJanuary 30, 2020

Mobile Advertising Personal Data

TIK TOK under review by European Privacy authorities

The Italian authority for Privacy (GPDP) has launched a co-ordinated action to review the risks linked with the TikTok app – an attempt to protect children’s privacy rights. TikTok is a social network that allows creating and sharing audios, videos, and pictures, used by millions of mostly young users worldwide.…

Dario BettiJanuary 29, 2020

Personal Data

A temporary ban on face recognition in public: why debate is key to finding a balance

On Monday the chief executive of Google parent company Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, backed EU proposals for a temporary ban on facial recognition technology while regulators assess potential risks, highlighting concerns around the use of face recognition in public areas for subject identification, saying: “Facial recognition is fraught with risks...

MEFJanuary 23, 2020

Mobile Advertising Personal Data

RTB advertising: ICO threatens punishments, more work to be done

Six months after its first warning the UK Privacy Regulator (ICO) is making clear that the issues with RTB online advertising have not gone away, and it is now threatening to punish companies that are misbehaving. The analysis from ICO shows that sensitive personal information is shared by some advertising…

Dario BettiJanuary 21, 2020

Internet of Things Mobile Content Personal Data

CES: telecoms trends for 2020

MEF CEO Dario Betti shares his key take-aways from CES 2020: CES is of course not a mobile focused event, and telecom professionals might find they have to fight their way through super-fast wine chillers, AI enabled food mixers, companion robots that run IoT devices in the home, and new…

MEFJanuary 16, 2020

Digital Identity

What next for Personal Data & Identity?

Iain McCallum, mobile industry veteran and MEF Advisor shares discussions from the MEF Connects personal data and Identity sessions held in London at the end of last year. The MEF Connects London event was a great opportunity for the Personal Data & identity Working Group Members and other interested parties…

Iain McCallumJanuary 16, 2020

Enterprise Communications Internet of Things Personal Data

MEF Global Board Mobile Predictions 2020

Every year we ask MEF’s Global Board to share their insights into what will be the big trends and changes for the mobile ecosystem in the year ahead. With a new decade underway, mobile is at the heart of digital transformation and industry disruption. Here are the views from some…

MEFJanuary 9, 2020

Digital Identity

Mobile-first Digital Identity Will Transform Transactions & Civic Records

In this guest post, Juniper Lead Analyst James Moar describes developments in the field of digital identity, and explores the challenges and opportunities in how we may interact with our digital environment in the near and distant future. In the digital world, the issue of ‘who you are’ is hugely…

MEFDecember 23, 2019

Personal Data

New study reveals data protection and compliance risks from new era of mobile workforce

Data Privacy Day in 2020 – more relevant than ever?

Interview: John Wilkinson – CEO, TMT Analysis

A temporary ban on face recognition in public: why debate is key to finding a balance

CES: telecoms trends for 2020

What next for Personal Data & Identity?

MEF Global Board Mobile Predictions 2020

Mobile-first Digital Identity Will Transform Transactions & Civic Records

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